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I returned home from NYC to a modest stack of mail that included a piece I anticipate reading each spring — the Childsplay Summer Academy schedule. I'm amazed each year by the collection of offerings they put together, and know firsthand that these puppies can fill up fast before dawdling parents decide on summer camp options with their children. So here's a roundup of a few selections I found especially fanciful…
First, two options in mixed age classes — weeklong "Musical Theatre Marathon" classes for ages 8-15 and one-day "Midsummer Days" classes for ages 7-12. Musical theater themes include Footloose, Aladdin, Wizard of Oz, Sound of Music, Glee Club, Mary Poppins, Lion King and Alice in Wonderland.
I'm especially delighted with that last one given a recent blurb in The New York Times noting a Variety report that Broadway director and choreographer Rob Ashford was recently tapped for a staged musical adaptation of Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" film.
Four "On Stage Classes" including voice, choreographed movement and character work culminate with a performance at the Tempe Performing Arts Center. And there are two special "Middle School/High School" options, including "Deconstruction Zone: To Kill a Mockingbird" and
"Exploring Literature: The Hunger Games."
Childsplay also offers eight classes in each of four age groups. Options for ages 4-6 include "Story Journeys" a la Fancy Nancy and Pinkalicious. Kids ages 5-7 can enjoy "Step into Spanish," "Fractured Fairytales" and more. Classes for ages 6-9 include "Story Journeys: Magic Tree House" and "Poetry in Motion," and choices for ages 8-12 include "Shakespeare's Tempest," "Poetry Slam" and "Story Drama: Harry Potter."
Like many of the works performed by Childsplay for young audiences, several of their camps are literature-based and feature literacy-related themes. Think fairy tales, young adult novels, classic children's series and more. (The Childsplay production of "Tomás and the Library Lady" opens with an April 7 preview at Tempe Center for the Performing Arts.)
They've got "Music Makers" for kids who dig music — plus options tailored to children who love pirates, dinosaurs, superheros and other sorts of adventure tales. Favorites are already filling up, so now's the time to do your parent homework on the subject of summer camps.
You can jump online to see a full range of options, or call to request their nifty brochure that breaks everything down by age, theme and dates — and shares fun details about everything from extended care options to performances for family and friends.
Camps are offered at two locations — the Campus for Imagination and Wonder and the Tempe Performing Arts Center (home to Childsplay before their move to a new Tempe campus at Mitchell Park named for Sybil B. Harrington).
There's little sincerity when the orphans in "Annie" chime "We love you Miss Hannigan," but I'm genuinely grateful for generous donations by Harrington and others that make theater experiences possible for our children and teens.
In a world where developing intellect, creativity, problem solving and social skills is so critical to learning, working, loving and being an active, engaged citizen, theater companies and other arts organizations serving youth are a necessity, not a luxury.
— Lynn
Note: Raising Arizona Kids subscribers receive our summer camp issue each year, and additional information about summer camp options is available at www.raisingarizonakids.com.
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This is a guest post from Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool's Rule Your Retirement service. He also has a blog, Twittering thing, and other things that are supposed to be important but he often forgets about, such as hygiene. Robert contributes one new article to Get Rich Slowly every two weeks.
A few weeks ago, I attended the Morningstar Investment Conference and took in the insights and predictions of all kinds of mutual fund managers and financial experts. On the whole, these folks weren't too optimistic about earning exceptional returns on any kind of investment. Bonds and cash have paltry yields, and stocks aren't as cheap as they were a couple of years ago. I think the collective investment advice of the event could be summed up by a line from Tom Hancock of money-management firm GMO, who said, "The only thing I like about stocks is they're not bonds.â€
During the opening session, Pimco co-chief investment officer and bond fund manager Bill Gross bemoaned the low rates on Treasuries. He also argued that investors shouldn't expect 10% returns from stocks. But at the end of his talk, Gross suggested investors look for a solid, inflation-beating return from companies that pay steady dividends — companies such as Coca-Cola, Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Southern Company, and Duke Energy. (Full disclosure: I own shares of Johnson & Johnson, and when children pass me in the street they scream, "Gross!â€)
Bill Gross was singing a tune similar to what has been wafting from the pages my Rule Your Retirement newsletter over the past few months: Stocks are not priced for exceptional returns over the next decade, and in a sideways market, dividends play an even bigger role in your portfolio.
As I listened to Gross, I wondered what would happen at the extreme: What if stocks didn't gain a penny and all we received was dividends? I fired up Excel and found some fascinating figures.
Benefits of Stock Dividends
First off, let's recap the benefits of stock dividends.
Unlike the interest from bonds, dividends tend to grow over time, historically at a rate that exceeds inflation. For most investors, the smart strategy is to use those dividends to buy more shares of stock, so that they'll receive even more dividends, so they can buy even more stocks, and so on. In a previous post, I likened dividend-paying stocks to money-growing trees that produce a little more financial fruit each year. If you buy more trees with that cash crop, you reap even more fiscal flora. Given long enough time, you could have a whole greenhouse producing the green stuff.
To illustrate how this can pay off over the long term, let's move from stalks to stocks and assume you own 1,000 shares of a stock that trades for $100, for a total investment of $100,000. (Note that this is just a hypothetical illustration; very, very few people should have so much money in one stock; also, the same principles apply to a mutual fund that pays dividends, even if you invest just $100.) The stock has a 3% dividend yield, so over the past year you received $3 per share, or a total of $3,000 in dividends.
Unfortunately, the price of this stock doesn't move much over the next decade. In fact, it doesn't move at all. Here's what such an investment would look like after 10 and 20 years, if the dividend increases 6% a year but the stock price doesn't budge.
|After 10 Years
|After 20 Years
|Value of Investment
|Number of Shares Owned
|Dividends Received During the Last Year
|Annualized Return
While ten or twenty years of no price movement in a stock is disappointing, all is not lost. By reinvesting the dividends, you still earned money, thanks to owning more shares that each pay higher dividends.
Slowly Get Rich with Dividends
Like all illustrations of compound interest — i.e., earning interest on interest, or, in this case, dividends on dividends — it's not something that will make you wealthy overnight — but it could help you get rich slowly. (Hey, that would be a great name for a website!). Also, like all illustrations of compounding growth, it looks better the more time you give it.
If you can stretch your investing horizon even further — or if you're trying to convince a young investor to get started early — 30 years of reinvested dividends, growing 6% a year, will turn that $100,000 starting sum into $1.2 million, for an 8.6% annualized gain.
Earning 4% or even 8% on your long-term money may not sound exciting to some people. But that's not tragic considering it's based on a dire scenario: a stock that doesn't increase in value for 10, 20, or 30 years. Of course, I hope that any stock or mutual fund you buy does increase in value. And when that happens, dividend reinvestment pays off even more, because you're accumulating more shares to benefit from that capital appreciation.
An Uncertain Future with Stock Investments
This article isn't intended to persuade you to buy stocks. Stocks are volatile and risky and often stinky and all that. I am not offering boilerplate legalese when I say that I'm not 100% confident stock investments will be worth more in 20 years than they are today.
At the Morningstar Investment Conference, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said, "Anyone who plans to be around in 10 years should be in equities.†It's not hard to see his point when you look at the alternatives. On the other hand, if you read the aforementioned link to Doug Short's site, you won't feel so sanguine about stocks.
As for me, I continue to own stocks in all forms — index funds, some actively managed funds, a handful of individual companies — but I don't expect exceptional returns; I'm basing my retirement on my ability to save, not on the return I earn on the savings. And I expect that dividend reinvestment will be a large source of any returns I receive.

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Casey Lee, who works at the Bayside Collective in Olympia, Wash., told The Olympian agents seized 11 or 12 plants and about a quarter-pound of marijuana.
"I don't think we're doing anything wrong here," Lee said. "This is really disturbing. We just opened last month."
Medical marijuana has been legal in Washington State for 15 years, and voters last year approved the legalization of recreational marijuana. But marijuana remains illegal under federal law.
Douglas Hiatt, a lawyer who represents clinic operators, said he knew of at least four clinics that were raided, KING-TV reported. But he said a client told him a DEA agent said 18 clinics were targeted.
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Lilly and Rosie, daughters of an empire coming of age in the roaring twenties, can have anything they want…except freedom. Expected to marry well and to take the reins of the empire, they have their lives planned out for them. But, Lilly, Esme's daughter longs to return home to Montana, to adventure outside the confines of New York City. And Jinx's daughter Rosie dreams of the bright lights of the newly emerging silver screen. But following their dreams – from avant garde France, to Broadway, to the skies in the world of barnstormers and wing-walkers will take all their courage. And if they find love, will they choose
Jazz, air planes, post-WWI, short dresses, bold makeup, gangsters, baseball, tons of jewelry, and flapper dresses. Baroness leaves nothing out in this roaring twenties novel. Susan May Warren is truly a master a capturing an era that few people write about.
I couldn't put this book down. Almost every character jumped off the page! The two main characters, Rosie and Lilly, truly captured the heart. I cried with them, felt joy with them, and cheered as they attempted to reach for more.
The beginning of the novel seemed, at first, to be somewhat a waste of time. Yes, we strolled through the streets of
Paris, but when nothing truly developed from the characters' time in , I started wondering why on earth it was in the novel. Of course, Susan May Warren is a wonderful story-teller, and one can rest-assured nothing goes to waste in this story. I love how she walked us through their past rather provide back story. Paris
While this novel is written for adults, I can't help but feel that it should also be a "coming of age" novel. If I were a teacher in school, I'd opt for Baroness over The Great Gatsby for required reading.
Now, I have to say something about the title. Baroness. Why is this so cute? When you discover one of main character's final career choice, you can't help but think of the Red Baron. To be honest, I think it's genius!
If you're looking for a novel that is different, gripping, exciting, and historical, then Baroness will leave you not only satisfied, but longing for more. Thank goodness, Susan May Warren has a third one in the series coming out!
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Hazrat Mahdi (as) will not appear in a way that will oblige people to believe. On the contrary, Hazrat Mahdi (as) will have a very reasonable appearance in complete conformity with the law of Allah and again in conformity with that law, with a perfectly reasonable life. It is for that reason that it will not be easy for people to recognize Hazrat Mahdi (as), and his identity will only gradually be realized. As Bedizzaman Said Nursi has said, "even his close followers will only recognize Hazrat Mahdi (as) through the luminosity of his faith when they really focus on him."
"But already have come some tokens thereof." (Surah Muhammad, 18), was written in order to protect the belief of the mass of believers and preserve it from doubt. Like mutashabih (having many meanings, ambigiuous, allegorical) verses of the Qur'an, some hadiths about the events of the End Times have profound meanings. They cannot be expounded in the same way as muhkam (incontestable, entirely clear)verses, and not everyone can understand them. Rather than being expounded, they are explained away (interpreted in a different meaning).
In compliance with the secret, "But none except Allah and those who are deeply rooted in knowledge, knows its final meaning (ta'wil)" (Surah Al 'Imran, 7) their interpretation (real meanings)and what is intended by them is understood only after the event, so that those firmly grounded in knowledge say:
"We believe in it; the whole [of the divine writ]is from our Sustainer," (Surah Al 'Imran, 7)and they disclose those hidden truths. (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, The Rays / The Fifth Ray - p. 455)
This Fifth Ray contains an Introduction and twenty-three 'Matters.' The Introduction consists of five 'Points.'
First Point:
Since belief and accountability are a test, a trial, a competition within the bounds of man's will(in terms of willpower and the power to choose), matters that are obscure, profound, and in need of careful study and experiment cannot obvious. They should not be so compelling that everyone has to affirm them willy-nilly. For in this way the Abu Bakr's may rise to the highest of the high and the Abu Jahl's descend to the lowest of the low. If there is no will, there is no accountability. It is because of this mystery and wisdom that miracles are displayed only rarely, and in this realm of accountability, like some mutashabih verses of the Qur'an, the signs of the end of the world, which will be visible and seen, are obscure and open to interpretation. Only when the sun rises in the west, it will be so clear everyone will be compelled to affirm it, the door of repentance will be closed and repentance and belief will no longer be accepted. For the Abu Bakr's and the Abu Jahl's will be equal in their affirmation of it (Both the good and the bad will affirm these facts and they will be in the same situation). In fact, although when the Prophet Jesus (as) comes, that he is the Prophet Jesus (as) is known by the light of faith.
Second Point:
Some of the matters of the Unseen, outside the realm of man's perception, that were made known to the Prophet (saas) were made known in detail. These he could in no way alter or interfere with, like the muhkam verses of the Qur'an and 'Sacred' Hadiths. (Hadith Qudsi: A saying of the Prophet (saas) imparted to him by revelation or inspiration, the wording of which was his own. [Tr.]) Others, employing his eloquence, he would illustrate and explain in detail and is left to his opinion (since these are matters that are not commanded explicitly in the Qur'an they are left to the Prophet's (saas) decree by referring to the Qur'an and the hadith). Like the hadiths regarding the matters of the universe (matters that take place and are not related to faith) and of the events of the future. In this, our Prophet (saas) explain and depict in detail in allegorical form suitably to the wisdom of man's accountability. For example, one time when conversing with some people, a deep rumbling was heard.
Our Prophet (saas) said: "That is the sound of a rock which has been rolling down hill for seventy years and has at this moment come to rest in the very pit of Hell." Five minutes after he made this strange announcement, someone came and said: "Such-and-such a dissembler has died. He was seventy years old, and has gone to Hell," (Muslim, Janna, 31, No: 2844; Musnad, iii, 341)showing the meaning of the Prophet's (saas) eloquent words.
The Third Point consists of two 'Points':
The First:
Because in the course of time ordinary people attached literal meanings to some hadiths, which had been narrated in the form of comparisons and allegories, such Hadiths are regarded to be not conformable with reality. Although they are pure truth, they appear not to be so since they are not consistent with the events taking place.
The Second:
Some hadiths refer to the majority of Muslims, or to the Islamic State (places where Islamic morality prevails), or to the centre of the governance but they were understood to refer to all the people in the world. Although being particular in some respect, they were supposed to be universal and general.
Fourth Point:
Just as for numerous reasons and instances of wisdom hidden matters of 'the Unseen' like death and the appointed hour remain secret, so the end of the world, which is its death and the appointed hour of mankind and that of the animal kingdom, has been left secret for many good reasons and wisdom.
... Also, if the death of the world had been specified, some of the truths of belief would have been clearly obvious and everyone would have affirmed them willy-nilly (all people would believe these facts). The mystery of man's accountability (the power to chose using conscience)and the wisdom and purpose of belief (the secret behind the test of the life of this world), which are tied to man's choice and will, would have been negated.
It is for numerous benefits such as these that matters related to the Unseen remain secret. Everyone therefore continually bears in mind both his death and his continued life (everyone thinks of their life and death at the same time), and he works both for this world and the Hereafter. He is also aware that the end of the world may occur in any age, or that it may continue, and so works for eternal life within the transiency of this world, and yet strives to build the world as though he was never going to die.
… It is because most hidden cosmic events are tied to such instances of wisdom that to give news of the Unseen or to foretell events has been prohibited. In order not to be disrespectful and disobedient in the face of the principle (in the Law of Allah) 'None knows the Unseen save Allah', those who with the leave of Allah, even give news of the Unseen other than matters concerning man's accountability and the truths of belief, have done so only allusively and indirectly. In fact, the good tidings about the Prophet Muhammad (saas) in the Torah, Gospels, and Psalms, even are veiled and obscure, in consequence of which some of the adherents of those scriptures (those who obeyed those scriptures)put various meanings on those passages and did not believe by explaining them away (by misinterpreting these truths according to themselves). However, since the wisdom in man's accountability necessitates that the questions included among the tenets of belief are communicated explicitly and repeatedly, the Qur'an of Miraculous Exposition and its Glorious Interpreter (saas) tell of the matters of the Hereafter in detail, and of future worldly events only in summary fashion.
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Also, since the wonders of the times of the antichrist (dajjal), which are related to their centuries, have been narrated in connection with them, those wonders have been imagined to proceed from their persons and this has led to the narrations becoming allegorical and their true meanings being concealed. Like, for example, his travelling by aero plane and railway train…
And, for example, it is well-known that when the Islamic antichrist dies, the satan who serves him will shoutout the news to the whole world(Muslim, Kitab al-Fitan, 34)from 'Dikilitas,' the obelisk in Istanbul, and everyone will hear its voice saying he is dead. That is to say the news will be broadcast by radio, which is wonderful and leaves even satans in amazement.
Also, since the strange circumstances and fearsome activities of the antichrist's regime, and the covert organization and government that he founds, have been narrated as referring to his person, their true meaning has remained obscure. For example, the hadith narrates "He will be so powerful and long-lived that only the Prophet Jesus (as) will be able to kill him; nothing else will be able to."(Tirmidhi, Kitab al-Fitan, 62; Abu Dawud, Kitab al-Malahim, 14; Musnad, iii, 420; iv, 226; al-Hakim, al-Mustadraq, iv, 529-30).
That is, it will only be a revealed, elevated, pure religion (sent from the Sight of Allah that will be able to overturn his way and rapacious regime, and eliminate them. Such a religion will emerge among the true followers of the Prophet Jesus (as) (Christians), and it will follow the Qur'an and become united with it. On the coming of the Prophet Jesus (as) (his second coming to Earth)and emergence of the true Christian religion, the antichrist's irreligious way will be wiped out and will cease. The antichrist's person could otherwise be killed by a mere germ or by influenza.
Also, the explanations and statements of some narrators, made through their own exertions and interpretations, which are open to error, have been mixed up with the words of the hadith. Their words have been supposed to be part of the hadith, and the meaning (the real meaning of the hadith)has been obscured. It does not appear to be conformable with reality (therefore that the hadith are in conformith with the events that took place is not understood)and in a way has become mutashabih (it is assumed that these hadith require interpretation).
Also, in early times the social collectivity and its collective personality had not developed as it has at the present (that the spiritual entity of the community had not come to open) and the idea of the isolated individual (attributing many features to one person only)was predominant, the extensive attributes and widescale actions of the community (the distinctive feature of the community and its great acts), therefore, were ascribed to the persons who led them.
In order to be worthy and fitting for superhuman (out of the ordinary), universal attributes, those persons had to have gigantic bodies and be of vast stature and have colossal power and strength a hundred times surpassing their own, so that is how they were depicted. As this was not conformable with reality, and the narration became mutashabih.
... Also, the circumstances (features) of the Great Mahdi (as) do not fit the narrations alluding to the earlier Mahdis, and these have become mutashabih hadiths (they are considered as hadith that require interpretation)…2009-12-22 14:12:59


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The Regular Season Tournament Discussion forum has been combined with what was the Comparisons forum. Now titled "National and Regional Comparisons and Discussions", the main forum will serve to take care of the nation-ranging topics that lived in those two forums. This includes:
- Comparisons between the top teams across the nation
- The occasional polls that are held on this site
- Quality of tournament sets that are held at multiple sets
There are now child forums as well, covering the entire nation. Rather than containing state-specific talk to one thread, we want to give you more room to discuss topics that are affecting teams within your area.
At this time, we have only one state specific sub-forum, which is for Illinois. Since that state is the most active in state-specific discussions by far, they received their own sub-forum.
Discussion in these child forums should be specific to quiz bowl in your area. Example topics include:
- Comparisons between the top teams in your area
- Quality of tournaments or question sets that are held in your state
- The status of your governing body
Things that should not be done in these forums:
- Non-quiz bowl talk. We have multiple off topic areas for your use.
- Announcements of tournaments. We have a different forum for this, too!
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Also, if somebody makes a post noting that it's the xth of the thread or that the thread has reached page y, they're open to a three day ban. If the post is content free beyond that alert of counting ability, the ban will be extended to seven days.
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When people visit Janet's Designs from Nature at 320 Ichord Ave in Waynesville, they see a 4,000 square foot shop brimming with customers and home d�cor and floral arrangements for sale.
When people visit Janet's Designs from Nature at 320 Ichord Ave in Waynesville, they see a 4,000 square foot shop brimming with customers and home décor and floral arrangements for sale.
They also see Janet Dunbar, owner, who seems to always be smiling and willing to help her customers in any way possible.
However, even though Dunbar's shop seems to be quite successful now, it had modest beginnings.
"I actually started about 15 years ago making florals in the basement of my home," Dunbar explained. "Pretty soon, family and friends asked, one thing led to another, I started having more and more inventory, and it started taking over our entire family room. There was nowhere to sit, and my husband said, 'You've got to find a place to store some of this.'"
That led to Dunbar's first official location, opening its doors in 2001.
"We started out in this little, small place on the second floor of First State Bank," she explained. "All I did was florals. Business started growing, and I put everything back into the business."
She said after about 1.5 years, she started to outgrow her location above the bank, and then found her new spot, which is located in Townfield Plaza.
"We went from this little, bitty, small space to over 4,000 square feet," she said.
And from there, things continued to grow.
Dunbar also continued to develop relationships with her customers, which she said is one of her favorite parts of the job.
"This is something I love, and I love the people. Customers have turned into lifelong friends," she said moments before hugging her third customer goodbye within a period of about 30 minutes.
She said she has always loved working with florals, but she didn't always know she'd eventually open her own location filled with "all kinds of gifts and home décor."
"I had a little trouble in college trying to figure out what I wanted to do. Before I started this, I was a stay-at-home mom for my son, Chris, who is about to graduate from medical school in Kansas City," she said.
When she first started selling items, Dunbar said she was always stressed out about her decisions.
"I was always worried so much about what other people would like," she explained. "I really made myself sick. I eventually had to get to the point where I started picking what I liked and just hoped and prayed that other people would love it, too, and take it home."
So far, Dunbar said that system has worked.
"I love it when people stop in or call me just to tell me how much people love the gifts they buy here," she said.
Dunbar said one thing people may not realize about her job is how physically demanding it can be at times.
"People may be surprised," she said. "Opening boxes and moving all of the inventory is demanding. There are also so many things you have to put together, and the boxes are huge."
Right now, if you step foot into Janet's Designs by Nature, you may think you're in a winter wonderland.
On top of some of the shop's regular assortment of home décor, floral items, wines, accessories, candles, wall art, handbags, scarves and much more, there are large trees throughout the store, completely covered with a wide variety of Christmas ornaments.
"We're all decorated for Christmas right now, and I think oaur Christmas trees are really unique," Dunbar said.
With Christmas being right around the corner, Dunbar said her holiday items, which are currently 20 percent off, are being well-received by her customers.
She said some of her items that do well year-round include her home décor and candles.
Right now, Dunbar said she is working at least six days per week on average. She used to have to work seven days every week.
However, even though she has to put in long hours, Dunbar said it is worth it.
"The greatest things about [my shop] are my customers and friends that come here and support me year after year," she shared.
Dunbar also praised the support of her husband, Mike, her son, Chris, and the community as a whole.
"I love [having my shop] because of the people," she said. "And plus, it's my passion."
To learn more about Janet's Designs by Nature, visit them on the web at http://www.janetsdesignsfromnature.com, call (573) 774-3733 or stop by Townfield Plaza - 320 Ichord Ave, Suite Q in Waynesville.


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CLEVELAND, Tenn. – The King University women's golf team wrapped up their fall season by finishing sixth at the Lady Flames Shootout, hosted by Lee University. The Tornado shot 347 in the second round for a tournament total of 699. Elizabeth Swallow led the Tornado with a third place finish.
Swallow followed her first round of 80 with a second round of 78 to move up two places with a total of 158. In four tournaments this fall, Swallow finished in the top-10 in all four of them, posting top-5 finishes three times. Cortnee Young followed Swallow, finishing with a tournament score of 172 after carding an 88 in the second round.
Anna Walker shot 89 on day two to finish with a two-day total of 182. Kerby Jones and Karissa King rounded out the Tornado squad. Jones finished the tournament with a total of 187 after shooting 92 on day two while King carded a 94 in the second round to finish with a total of 191.
Lee University won the tournament with a total of 629 while University of North Georgia can in second at 654.
King will be in action again next spring.


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At 15,000 square feet, this contemporary mountain home in Aspen, Colorado's exclusive Star Mesa enclave is warm and approachable from the start. Designed by Charles Cunniffe Architects, the home embraces and welcomes you inside with the stone steps widen as you approach. Douglas Fir Beams and dry stacked Telluride Stone, traverse the exterior and the interior of the home, with antique re-sawn White Oak flooring seen throughout. Two great rooms allow guests to spread out on the main floor. In lieu of the now traditional television above the fireplace, the Owners found "Bert," a stuffed Highland Goat. With the addition of the second, more intimate great room, they found his brother "Ernie". They tight-knit family loved the idea of keeping the brothers together.
Flanked by two great rooms and a casual dining space, the kitchen became center-stage with its sophisticated material palette and elegant lighting. Telluride Stone columns with Colorado Buff Limestone caps border the Stantos Redwood cabinetry, with a subtle reveal and clear hardware. The architect himself photographed the fall Aspen Trees for the client, and beautifully framed the massive image to create a window into the outside world. The master suite on the main level curves gracefully around the side of the home opening to the mountain views.
Furnishings by Fendi create a fresh yet luxurious feel with cove lighting and the stone fireplace. The opulent master bath was designed with two vanities separated by a glass and marble shower, opening to the bathtub with picture windows and crystal chandeliers. A generously sized master closet sits adjacent. Ascending the Antique White Oak steps, cut Colorado Buff columns with Ox horn lamps and glass doors open to the Star Mesa Wine Cellar housing 1,100 bottles. An arcade, custom theater, a bunkroom and additional guest rooms make up the lower level, which also share in the same rich material palette.
Decorative custom steel doors open into a spacious entry that serves as a casual sitting area.
Comfortable chairs cozy up to a gas fireplace set between stone pillars. Linear glass elements, backlit with LED lights, are embedded in the petrified-stone fireplace wall that soars all the way to the Western hemlock wood ceiling.


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Tonight, we are young / So let's set the world on fire / We can burn brighter than the sun — "We Are Young" by fun.
If Sunday's 54th annual Grammy Awards ceremony needs a theme song, "We Are Young" by the New York alternative-pop trio fun. should fit the bill almost perfectly.
At least it should when it comes to this annual awards show's three most prestigious categories — Album, Record and Song of the Year — which have rarely before been dominated by so many fresh nominees, some with only one or two albums to their credit.
To cite one example, Frank Ocean, 25, and Mumford & Sons (whose leader, Marcus Mumford, is 26), have a field-leading six nominations each. To cite another, in the Album of the Year category, former White Stripes leader Jack White is, at 36, the oldest nominee. And, of the Best Pop Solo Performance contenders — a field that includes Adele, Rihanna, Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry and Carly Rae Jepsen — Perry and Clarkson are the senior nominees, at the suddenly prehistoric age of 28 and 30, respectively.
"New blood is the future, and new and young artists are the ones who excite and inspire new and young fans," said Neil Portnow, the president and CEO of the Recording Academy, under whose auspices the Grammys are presented.
"What's great about our community is there is plenty of room at the inn. There's room for as many wonderful, exciting new artists as we can find. And, frankly, the more the better."
The more the better, indeed, as our "5 Things to Watch For" at the 2013 Grammys round-up attests.
Last year's Grammys telecast drew a U.S. viewing audience of nearly 40 million, more than 500,000 of them in San Diego. That's a nearly 14 million jump from 2011, making it the second-most-watched edition of this awards show ever. (It was topped only by Michael Jackson's "Thriller"-fueled sweep in 1984). Moreover, the record 13 million social media comments generated by the 2012 Grammys telecast surpassed that of last year's Super Bowl.
That was due in part to last year's generations-leaping lineup, which featured everyone from Paul McCartney and Nicki Minaj to Bruce Springsteen and Deadmau5. But Portnow also deserves a fair share of the credit.
In the decade that he has guided the nonprofit Recording Academy, a year-round arts organization, he's helped transform the Grammys from being a conservative event that tended to showcase legendary artists over young ones and too often ignored daring or unconventional performers in favor of safe, predictable ones. He has also helped the Grammys embrace social media in a very big way, as well as expand and diversify the Recording Academy's membership of music business professionals. (That number now stands at about 20,000, including 12,000 voting members.)
The results, as evidenced by last year's flood of tweets and Arcade Fire's unexpected 2011 Album of the Year victory, suggest the Grammys are finally becoming hip and cool.
"Well, yeah, and that's clearly by design," Portnow said. "Because, certainly, as an academy — and as the institution that is looked to to sort of define excellence in any given year, and over people's lifetimes — we want to get it right. The Grammys have become the seal of approval, not only for artists, but for music fans, from the most dedicated to most casual. It's the place to see and hear what's most important in music. It's also unpredictable, because it's live and anything can happen."
In the case of the Grammys, that unpredictability can be odd and amusing, as in 1998, when Bob Dylan's performance suddenly included a shirtless male dancer with the words "Soy Bomb Man" scrawled across his torso.
Conversely, last year's telecast had a double-dose of real-life drama: Adele's triumphant return to live singing after a throat operation sidelined her for six months, and the stirring but somber last-minute tribute to Whitney Houston, who died barely 24 hours before the 2012 telecast began.
"Obviously, Whitney was a big story last year, and a sad one, and we're certainly not looking for any of those this year," Portnow said.
"But when you talk about people in the spotlight, whether well-established or new, we have lots of stories that will unfold (at the telecast) and be told about the personal side of the artists. Add it all up, and we're certainly looking to keep the kind of audience we had (in 2012) and are planning to have as exciting and compelling an evening as we did last year."
Make that exciting, if potentially less revealing, at least in a literal sense.
On Wednesday, a memo from CBS — which televises the Grammys — was leaked to the media about the network's guidelines for revealing clothing on the annual awards show. (CBS is the same network that aired the Super Bowl in 2004, when Janet Jackson's Justin Timberlake-assisted "wardrobe malfunction" created much controversy and led to a fine, later overturned, of CBS by the Federal Communications Commission.)
The memo read, in part: "Please avoid exposing bare fleshy under curves of the buttocks and buttock crack. Bare sides or under curvature of the breasts is also problematic. Please avoid sheer see-through clothing that could possibly expose female breast nipples. Please be sure the genital region is adequately covered so that there is no visible 'puffy' bare skin exposure."
What viewers won't see, Portnow promised during his interview last Friday with U-T San Diego, is any lip-syncing by Grammy performers.
The lip-syncing issue most recently made national headlines last month when Beyoncé admitted to lip-syncing the national anthem at President Barack Obama's inauguration. (She will appear on Sunday's Grammys telecast as an awards presenter, not a performer. It is unclear if the revealing outfit she wore last Sunday during her Super Bowl halftime performance, which aired on CBS, would pass muster on Sunday's Grammy telecast.)
"We're live live," Portnow said of the Grammys telecast, which airs on the West Coast on a three-hour time delay. "I think people have come to know us for that and that is a distinction that we can make with some other shows, which maybe do it differently. We do live in a world of a great deal of technology, as it applies to recordings and 'live' music concerts. It's part of the mix today of making records. And, then, creating live experiences are part of what's created through technology.
"So, in order to be contemporary and recreate some of the things that get done on record and in studios, and also the basic sounds, in certain respects, we have to be cognizant of that. But when it comes to singing and live vocals, that's what we've done (on the show) and artists want to do that. We know that's what it's going to be about and we have a good history with that. That said, each circumstance is different and each artist (on the Grammy telecast) has to evaluate what's in their best interest."
The Grammy grand finale you won't see
The Grammy Awards thrive on presenting unique "Grammy moments," be it the Beach Boys performing with Maroon 5 and Foster the People last year or this Sunday's unlikely musical teaming of Sting, Rihanna and Bruno Mars.
But here's something we dreamed up that you won't see Sunday, probably for the better. Namely, a "Gangnam Style" finale with Psy, Justin Bieber, One Direction and Nicki Minaj, all of whom were snubbed when the Grammy nominations were announced in December. As a bonus, Kanye West (who has six nominations, but is boycotting the show because none are in major categories) would join in via satellite feed.
We asked Grammy honcho Neil Portnow about our assumption that such a grand finale would not take place. After he stopped laughing, Portnow responded: "Well, although everything is pretty fluid with us, at this point, that's a pretty good assumption."
San Diego adds to Grammy flavor
A record dozen past and present San Diego artists — from Nickel Creek alum Chris Thile to Megadeth leader Dave Mustaine — will be vying for Grammy Awards during the show's pre-telecast portion Sunday at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. In addition, two recently deceased San Diego residents, singer Patti Page and Indian music legend Ravi Shankar, will posthumously receive Lifetime Achievement Grammy Awards at Saturday's invitation-only Special Merit Awards ceremony.
More Grammy coverage this weekend
Pop music critic George Varga will cover tonight's all-star MusiCares pre-Grammy concert, which honors Bruce Springsteen; Saturday's Special Merit Awards, which honors former San Diegans Ravi Shankar and Patti Page; and Sunday's Grammy Awards program in its entirety. To read his reports, go to utsandiego.com/news/entertainment/music.
The 54th annual Grammy Awards
Who: Hosted by LL Cool J, with performances by Elton John, Taylor Swift, The Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Frank Ocean, Rihanna, Carrie Underwood, Sting, Jack White, Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake and more
Telecast: 8 p.m. Sunday (delayed), KFMB Channel 8
Pre-telecast: 1 p.m. Sunday, hosted by David Alan Grier, on grammy.com/live and cbs.com


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The weakest area of Jefferson High School's basketball game suddenly grew to one of the strongest points for the boy's team this weekend.
The Dragons, led by Kendrick Robinson, sank one free throw after the next against Commerce to help JHS beat cross-town rival, 63-55, at home Friday. The emotionally charged game was followed with another strong showing Saturday in Jefferson as the Dragons lost 61-51 to North Hall (21-2), ranked seventh in the state out of Class AAA teams. See the Feb. 6 edition of the Jackson Herald for the full story and photos of the Jefferson-Commerce clash.
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By Bill Cotterell
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - The Florida legislature passed a bill on Wednesday restricting the use of unmanned drones by law enforcement agencies in the state, out of concern over privacy rights.
The House of Representatives unanimously approved the bill, which passed the Florida Senate last week. Governor Rick Scott said he plans to sign it into law.
Once the legislation is enacted, Florida will join Idaho and Virginia as states that have approved laws to limit the use of drones. Similar legislation restricting their use has been introduced in more than a dozen other states this year.
Current federal regulations sharply limit the number and types of drones that can fly in American airspace to just a few dozen law enforcement agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, and to universities for scientific research.
But more drones are expected to operate in the skies in the coming years if federal restrictions loosen, allowing increased use of lighter and lower-flying drones.
The Florida bill restricts the use of drones to emergencies like searches for missing children or a dangerous fugitive. It also allows them to be used in hostage situations and to assess damage from hurricanes or wildfires.
The legislation requires police to get search warrants before using drones to gather evidence or track suspects in a criminal case. Under the legislation, any evidence illegally gathered by drone surveillance would not be admissible in court.
Cash-strapped law enforcement agencies see small drones, which cost as little as $30,000, as money-saving, low-manpower tools that can aid in crime-fighting.
In February, worries over their use prompted the Virginia legislature to put a two-year moratorium on drones, with limited exceptions.
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Jessica also shared her recipe for a whole wheat pizza dough. I confess, that I was a bit skeptical, at first. I have a pizza dough recipe that I really like, but I wanted to try the whole wheat route. To those of you who are scared of working with yeast-- relax! It's not that hard. I keep a jar of Fleischmann's Bread Machine yeast in my refrigerator. I make sure that the yeast isn't expired.
Pizza Dough Flavor. I love it! Don't sweat it, if you don't. It's just an extra "perk" to the recipe. I added that to my pre-measured flour.
TIP: Preheat your oven to WARM for a few minutes, then turn it off. This will set up an "incubator" for the dough to rise much faster-- like almost twice as fast!
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Julie C. Brown, MDCM, MPH, is an emergency medicine attending physician at Seattle Children's Hospital and associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She received her medical degree from McGill University, Montreal, and her MPH from the University of Washington.
She completed her first two years of pediatrics residency at Rainbow Babies and Childrens in Cleveland. She completed her third year of pediatrics residency and pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Seattle Children's. She has also completed one-year fellowships in pediatric biomedical diseases and evidence-based medicine. She is board certified in general pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine by the American Board of Pediatrics. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She is co-Director of research for the Division of Emergency Medicine. Her research interests include foreign bodies, minor procedures, emergency management of respiratory diseases, and the use of technology in medicine. She is ATLS and PALS certified.
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Washington, DC, May 10, 2011 – As the weather begins to heat up, many Americans start to dream about going away on vacation. Unfortunately, soaring fuel and airfare costs have a lot of Americans wondering if they can afford to travel this summer. According to Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Consumer Advocate Eleanor Blayney, CFP®, summer revelers can still have a relaxing vacation away from home by using creative financial planning to save money and have a great time.
"You can keep vacation costs reasonable with a little creativity and a lot of planning," says Blayney. "Given that there may be no getting around the higher costs of travel – whether by car, train, or plane – you need to focus on all the other expense items of your vacation for opportunities to save."
Here are a few ways to make travel more affordable this year:
However, Blayney recognizes that even if you take her cost-saving advice, you still may not be able to balance your vacations plans with your budget. She suggests an alternative.
"Remember that getting away can be more a state of mind than a matter of geography," Blayney advises. "Become a bona fide visitor in your own city or town. Stay at a local hotel, and plan your days as a tourist, seeing and doing things you assumed you could always do later."
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Homecoming In the fifth and last part of the New York Times' "Invisible Child" series, Chanel and her children move into an apartment in Harlem, NY. (Ruth Fremson / The New York Times / Redux)Homecoming
The study found that readers of the narrative story felt a higher degree of compassion and empathy for Martinez, feelings that extended to undocumented immigrants as a group. Overall, the narrative readers altered their attitudes and opinions positively and were more interested in seeking additional information about the living conditions of undocumented immigrants, or even taking action to help.
Academics explain this narrative effect via something called "transportation theory," and while you may not be familiar with the term, you know the feeling:
"This was among the most moving stories I have ever read. When Chanel [Dasani's mother] clasped her hands together in prayer in her new Harlem apartment, I wanted to burst in and celebrate with her and her kids," wrote Nathaniel from West Orange, NJ, in an online comment on "Invisible Child."
That's transportation. Being so engaged in a story that it feels as if you inhabit that space and time, and feeling so connected to the characters that their joys and sorrows spark a physical reaction in you.
It's a phenomenon that parallels what Ickes showed with his stranger experiment. Scientific findings suggest that when we read and experience characters in a story, the brain processes our understanding of those unknown others similarly to how we understand real, physical others.
Familiar faces Chanel says she and Dasani are still approached by supportive strangers on the street who recognize them from the "Invisible Child" series. (Ruth Fremson / The New York Times / Redux)Familiar faces
The more transported you feel, the more likely you'll be to change your opinions and beliefs about the real world, psychologists Melanie C. Green and Timothy C. Brock write in The Role of Transportation in the Persuasiveness of Public Narratives . That feeling can be so strong that it leads to altered behavior, such as giving a $100 bill to a family of strangers. David Comer Kidd and Emanuele Castano even suggest that reading narratives make us more empathetic overall, because stories force us to engage in intense perspective taking.
What we intuitively believe to be true about how journalistic stories can spark empathy among readers is backed up by science. The question we're left with is whether that spark may diminish as our culture turns toward digital.MATTER OF TIME
A middle-aged woman reaches for the handle of her front door. Her body is rigid and her limbs protrude at sharp angles. Her wheelchair lurches and stops in strange syncopation. Her movements are typical of someone with cerebral palsy.
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Think you are the only person in class who sweats so much? Don't sweat it.
Or maybe it's the opposite situation for you, and everyone else is sweating so much while you walk away with a little forehead shimmer. (
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No matter your sitch, it's not just your imagination. There's a scientific explanation behind why some people sweat so much more than others.
Your body has between two to four million sweat glands, and their purpose is to maintain a normal body temperature – and cool you down when it's above average– by producing sweat.
That said, a number of factors could determine how much you perspire, including your gender, the number of sweat glands you have, the intensity of your exercise, and even your weight, according to Medical Daily .according to Medical Daily
First of all, guys sweat more than women. While women have just as many sweat glands than men, their glands do not produce as much sweat. That's why men tend to sweat more than women. (Thankfully there are makeup tips that will save a sweat-prone pretty face .)makeup tips that will save a sweat-prone pretty face
Your fitness regime could also be the culprit behind your proclivity to sweat.Your fitness regime
Fit people tend to bust a sweat so much and sooner in a workout, because it's more efficient to perspire while their body temperature remains low.
Someone who remains fairly sedentary, on the other hand, may heat up faster and lose more sweat when they exercise. Since fat tends to trap heat and raise the body's core temperature, overweight people typically sweat more, too.
Try cutting back on your consumption of caffeine and alcohol, as well as smoking. These habits can all cause your sweat glands to go overboard. (Here are signs you're drinking too much coffee .)signs you're drinking too much coffee
And check out your workout clothes. Fitness clothes, like the rest of the fashions in your closet, have seasons as well as purpose (meant to be worn inside or outside). If you are sweating tons, opt for for lighter, more airy fabrics that allow your skin to breathe.
Each day, our students are bombarded with the visual images of TV and video games. In contrast, most students view reading as a passive activity. But a simple technique can transform students of all ages from passive to active readers; visualization can help students cross the boundary to improved comprehension.
Your students will be able to grasp the visualization technique by following a simple, step-by-step plan:
Direct modeling of the active thought processes involved in visualizing text is the first step. Begin with a familiar fiction read-aloud. As you read a short passage, describe images see in mind. For example, you might use the following quote from
After reading that quote, share with students the images you visualized as you read it.
When you finish sharing your thoughts, let students try the same technique on their own. Share a highly descriptive reading selection appropriate for students' listening vocabulary level (up to two years above their reading vocabulary). If necessary, before reading share a vocabulary mini-lesson to introduce unfamiliar terms. Depending on the ages of your students, you might choose from the following titles or use a title of your choice that provides excellent descriptive passages.
Before reading aloud to students, offer the suggestions below.
For students identified as "at-risk", you might discuss what it feels like to be hot, or what shade of red a tomato might be, or how musty gym socks smell when they've been in a locker for three days. Give them concrete ideas and connect to prior knowledge. In other words, turn on the thought processes and you will prime students to do the same when they read. Remind them to think about what characters smell, taste, feel, hear, and think. Good readers do that. Also, point out to students that this technique will help them remember what the story is about.
After reading the selection, direct a class discussion in which students share images. Emphasize that everyone's visualizations will differ. Be sure to acknowledge and value all students' ideas.
Next, use a different selection from the same or another text. Tell students you will share part of a story (show no illustrations). Ask them to draw their own illustrations as they listen. The physical act of creating a picture can help students grasp the concept of visualization.
To connect this image building with comprehension and to reinforce the concept of visualization, make time to share and discuss students' images. That might be done in small groups first, then as a class.
After students begin to grasp the concept of visualization, be sure to reinforce it frequently. Make visualization a part of class every day. Those who have more difficulty with the concept will learn from peers' expressions imagination. Encourage those who struggle to ask other students how they came up with their ideas and to learn from one another.
Integrate this exercise into daily class read-alouds and silent reading. Incorporate not only physical images, but also ideas about feelings the characters might experience. (That will exercise students' critical thinking skills, especially their skill at making inferences.) Use the combination of drawings and mental image-making that works best for your students. As you progress, you can move from descriptive texts into expository texts.
By using visualization, you open the door for life-long reading. Most of all, you help develop in students the habit of actively thinking about what they read -- which leads to greater retention and understanding.
by Susan Zimmerman and Ellin Oliver Keene (Heinemann, 1997).
Cathy Puett Miller is a passionate advocate for early literacy. Known widely as "The Literacy Ambassador," Miller connects children, families, and teachers with resources to create positive early reading experiences.
As you listen, when you hear describing words (adjectives) -- such as or -- use those words to help paint pictures in your head.
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The head of the Green Climate Fund, set up by the United Nations in the fight against global warming, stepped down abruptly after less than two years on the job, leaving the organization's future in doubt.
Howard Bamsey, an Australian diplomat who served as the GCF's executive director since January 2017, resigned after a "difficult" meeting in which no new projects were approved, according to a statement released after the gathering in Songdo, South Korea.
"This has been a very difficult and disappointing board meeting for all of us, but most importantly for those people who are most vulnerable to climate change impacts, and who depend on the activities of the Fund," Lennart Bage, chairman of the GCF's meeting, said in the statement.
Established in 2010, the fund has committed to $3.7 billion of projects aimed at reducing greenhouse gases and helping nations overcome the impact of climate change. It has struggled since U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to slash funding for the initiative as well as other environmental projects.
"Everyone said this is the low point," said Jasmine Hyman, an environmental consultant at the British firm E Co. who attended the meeting. "This was a disappointing meeting but hopefully it's a canary in the mine and not a nail in the coffin."
Bamsey was the fund's second executive director and had a mandate of expanding the loans the organization makes to green projects in developing nations. Most of the four-day meeting was spent discussing agenda items and how replace another envoy who had been representing developing countries, according to Hyman.
"I have been considering the best timing for my departures from the secretariat," Bamsey said in a letter released by the GCF. "Pressing personal issues meant I would simply not be able to stay until the end of next year which is when replenishment is likely to conclude."


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NFL files motion, wants Tagliabue to hear appeals
NFL files motion, wants Tagliabue to hear appeals
NFL lawyers filed a motion in U.S. District Court in New Orleans requesting former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue be allowed to hear appeals on the Saints' bounties case next week.
The action comes after the players' union and the four players suspended in the bounties' case filed a motion asking that Tagliabue recuse himself from the case because of a conflict of interest and that a neutral arbitrator to be appointed by the court.
In the motion NFL lawyers quote defendant Jonathan Vilma's statement to ESPN saying that Tagliabue would be "a good first step" as a "neutral arbitrator."
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President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign has been fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for reporting violations related to a set of donations received during the final days of the campaign.
The fines are among the largest ever levied on a presidential campaign by the FEC and stem from a series of missing filings for nearly 1,200 contributions totaling nearly $1.9 million. Campaigns are required to file the reports during the final weeks of the campaign.
Obama campaign spokeswoman Katie Hogan said the 2008 campaign had more than 3 million donors and "the very few outstanding questions have now all been resolved."
The fines were first reported by Politico.


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Carmel Versus Flakey: A Comparison of Two Winners
The University of Michigan's CARMEL and SRI International's FLAKEY were the first- and second-place finishers, respectively, at the 1992 Robot Competition sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. The two teams used vastly different approaches in the design of their robots. Many of these differences were for technical reasons, although time constraints, financial resources, and long-term research objectives also played a part. This article gives a technical comparison of CARMEL and FLAKEY, focusing on design issues that were not directly reflected in the scoring criteria.
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Lisa and Louise had never met until the morning of July 7, 2005, when they found themselves sitting next to each other on the top deck of a No. 30 bus in London's commuter traffic. They would probably never have spoken to each other even then, given that legendary British reserve, but events would throw them together. As the bus exploded and they sat side by side, frozen in survivor shock, they turned to each other. One had lost her sight, the other her hearing in the blast. They became the eyes and ears for each other as they groped their terrified way through the debris and din. It was a friendship that would endure. A friendship forged in hell.
Can something good really emerge out of an event as abhorrent as a suicide bombing? Or to put the question another way: Can God really be present where God appears to be so conspicuously absent?
Roughly four years earlier, a young nurse was asking herself the same question as she signed in for duty in a Manhattan hospital. When she came up from the subway, she was just in time to witness the impact of the second plane on the World Trade Center. Realizing that whatever was happening, it was going to demand all of her skills, she rushed to her workplace and began to minister to the injured and the dying as ash fell from the skies, shrouding Manhattan in a blanket of death.
As a neurological specialist, it was her task to assess whether a casualty had suffered head trauma or was only in shock. The judgment wasn't always easy. A young black patient lay in front of her, a man in his 20's. He made no response to any of her questions. It was impossible to tell whether he suffered brain damage. She focused on his eyes. She caught the slightest glimmer of response through these windows of his soul, into his shattered, sacred, inner space. As their gazes met for a moment, a tear slowly rose in each of his eyes, like the source of some deep and sorrowing river. Each tear flowed slowly, oh so slowly, across his cheeks, making two shining black rivers through the layer of ash that covered his skin.
Now the nurse, too, had no more words. For a moment she hesitated, then she stretched out her fingers and gently, reverently, touched the tears.
It was a moment out of timea moment that only God could have given. Something was released inside the heart of a broken man. He began to speak. He poured out his story: how he had been in the office with a colleague; how he had flung himself under the desk, but his colleague had not been able to do so. How he had watched his colleague die.
The nurse listened. All that was possible, or needful, was to stay with her own helplessness. When the world appears to be collapsing around you, and the landscape of your life is covered with ash, staying with the helplessness is really the only option. But staying with our own helplessness is the hardest thing! We take in the messages of our culture along with our mother's milkor rather, we are taken in by them. Messages that tell us life has to work, and if it doesn't we have to fix it. Perfection is the goal. Anything less is failure. We are accustomed to having life under control. If circumstances seize that control away from us, we fight tooth and nail to regain our mastery over that terrifying chaos upon which our fragile order perches so precariously.
And then the moment comes when there is nothing to be done. When the screams subside and there is nothing left except the silence of shock, then we finally come face to face with our helplessness. And then, only then, the miracle happens. As once Moses obeyed God's command to strike a hard rock face in the desert, and a stream of living water broke forth (Ex 17), so the streams of grace still flow for us today out of the hardest rock that we can imagine.
My nurse friend, who has kindly given me permission to retell her story, did exactly that. In the face of the hard rock of nothing left to say, she obeyed some deep intuition that prompted her to reach out in a gesture of empathy and solidarity, and as soon as she did so, a cleansing and cathartic stream was released in her patient.
Perhaps Moses has something to teach us about that delicate balance between the ideal of moral leadership and the humility of helplessness. Who knows better than he the challenge of dealing with intractable problems?
Moses appealed to Yahweh for help. How am I to deal with this people? Any moment they will stone me!' And Yahweh's response: Go ahead of your people. Take the staff. Strike the rock. Water will come out. Go ahead! No problem is ever solved by the same mind-set that created it. Go ahead, toward a new mind-set, a new vision. And when you do, don't trust in your strength, but stand face to face with your weakness. Only there will fresh waters break through. Lead the people, but lead with humility. Dare to touch the pain in both friend and enemy, for there you will recognize your God.
On these raw edges of human life, God reveals to those who dare to look the Calvary truth that out of brokenness a radically new wholeness can grow. Today, five years after America's Zero Hour, Moses' staff is still in our hands. How will we use it? To batter the problem or to touch the tears?


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Film Review
The Orphanage
Atmospheric Spanish chiller will have audiences jumping at shadows
The Orphanage
Directed by Sergio G. Sánchez and Juan Antonio Bayona
Cast: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Geraldine Chaplin
America no longer knows how to make horror movies--which explains why virtually every horror film Hollywood has extruded in the last five years has been a remake. A large percentage of those remakes haven't even been remakes of American movies. Take, for example, the recent release One Missed Call. It's an English-language retooling of a 2003 Japanese flick (just like The Ring, The Grudge and Dark Water before it). What's more, Warner Brothers didn't even bother hiring an American to shoot it; the company went out and plucked an obscure French director named Eric Valette (Maléfique) to helm it. Seen ads for The Eye, the upcoming supernatural thriller starring Jessica Alba? It was originally a Thai film. Now we have an American version directed by--guess who?--a couple of French guys. All of which begs the question: If you like horror, why are you bothering to watch American films in the first place?
If you're as dedicated a fan of horror cinema as you claim to be on your MySpace profile, just cut out the middle man and start watching foreign fright films before the crummy American remakes show up. It might mean having to read a few subtitles, but the French (Haute Tension, 13 Tzameti), the Koreans (The Host, A Tale of Two Sisters), the Spanish (Rec, Anguish), hell, even the Dutch (Dead End) are making scarier cinema than we are right now. (All of those films I just mentioned have American remakes in the pipeline, by the way.)
So your assignment this week is to go straight to the movie theater and look up a little Spanish chiller named El Orfanato (The Orphanage). If the prospect of all those foreign names on the poster fills you with apprehension, simply rest assured in the fact that it's produced by Guillermo del Toro. He's from Mexico, but his work on Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy, Blade II, The Devil's Backbone, Mimic and Cronos ought to be enough to assure you of the film's pulse-pounding pedigree.
Written and co-directed by virtual unknowns Sergio G. Sánchez and Juan Antonio Bayona, The Orphanage is a chilly, atmosphere-laden ghost story set on the rocky rural coast of España. Belén Rueda, the fortysomething sexpot from The Sea Inside, is our main character, Laura. Our setting is a sprawling old seaside mansion just ripe for haunted housing. Together with her husband and young son, Laura returns to this long-unoccupied place in hopes of reopening it. Back in the day, the place was an orphanage, and Laura was lucky to be adopted from here decades ago. Now, she hopes to turn it into a boarding school for a handful of special needs children.
Almost immediately, we get the feeling things aren't right around this crumbling institution. For starters, there's Laura's prepubescent son Simón (Roger Príncep). He doesn't seem like a terribly well-adjusted kid to begin with, spending most of his time talking to his invisible friend and making up weird games. Simón's parents hope this is just a phase he's going through; but soon after moving into the old orphanage, he acquires a whole herd of invisible friends with whom he communes. This doesn't sit well with Laura, who soon recognizes an eerie connection between Simón's unseen playmates and a group of fellow orphans Laura knew as a child. In time, our heroine starts to realize her collection of sunny childhood memories isn't quite as bright as she once remembered.
The Orphanage is smart enough to keep its scares low-key and slow-building. We're never really sure, for example, if these ghosts are "real" or just part of Laura's overprotective parental paranoia. As the story builds, Laura grows increasingly frantic, until an unexpected tragedy causes just about everyone to question her sanity. The Orphanage spends most of its time dealing in the realm of the psychological, but there are enough visceral moments to keep your blood pumping throughout. A recurring image of a creepy kid with a burlap sack over his head is a sight sure to fuel a nightmare or two. The film does slow down a bit in the middle, exploring a wide and sometimes muddy range of story paths before driving home with the goods at high speed. Even so, there's at least one major jump-
If you require frequent, Hostel-style blood and guts to keep yourself going, The Orphanage isn't for you and your short attention span. (Dig up the Russian film Nails or the Italian film Last House in the Woods for that stuff.) This one's much more in line with atmospheric Japanese chillers, Alejandro Amenábar's The Others and with del Toro's back catalogue (The Devil's Backbone is a major influence here). Watching The Orphanage is akin to walking slowly down the basement stairs in your parents' old house, waiting in uncomfortable anticipation for something to leap out of the shadows and scare the lemonade out of your short pants.